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Flightdeck Friday: Planning, Building and Training for the Future

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(which might also serve as a cautionary tale to those who decry ‘future warists’ – SJS) …Investments in blood and treasure: Jan. 1927: 8 officers and 81 enlisted men of VO-1M, led by Maj. Ross Rowell, arrived at Corinto, Nicaragua with six DH’s. Amidst the anarchy of the civil and banditry, the U.S. Marines held…

Flightdeck Friday – Russian Edition (MAKS 2007)

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…or if you prefer – Полетная палуба в пятницу – российский Выпуск  Today’s edition will actually be a couple of installments, all stemming from news out o f MAKS 2007, the Russian Air Show and Trade Fair underway outside of Moscow this week.  First item up – MiG’s UCAV, just revealed yesterday: Video of the…

United States Navy: Happy 234th Birthday

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13 October 1775: Continental Congress “Resolved, That a swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns, and a proportionable number of swivels, with eighty men, be fitted, with all possible despatch, for a cruise of three months, and that the commander be instructed to cruize eastward, for intercepting such transports as may be laden with…